'He cut-break the rope': Encoding and categorizing cutting and breaking events in Mandarin

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 273-285

  Chen, Jidong ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Categorization; Cut and break; Event encoding; Mandarin; Resultative verb compounds; Separation events; Verb semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848875073     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.015     Document Type: Article

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